Delocalization of relativistic Dirac particles in disordered one-dimensional systems and its implementation with cold atoms

Shi-Liang Zhu, Dan-Wei Zhang, Z. D. Wang

Published 2008-10-05, updated 2009-05-13Version 2

We study theoretically the localization of relativistic particles in disordered one-dimensional chains. It is found that the relativistic particles tend to dislocation in comparison with the non-relativistic particles with the same disorder strength. More intriguingly, we reveal that the massless Dirac particles are entirely delocalized for any energy due to the inherent chiral symmetry, leading to a well-known result that particles are always localized in one-dimensional system for arbitrary weak disorders to break down. Furthermore, we propose a feasible scheme to simulate and detect the delocalization feature of the Dirac particles with cold atoms..